Compression

Compression essentially evens out the volume of your audio. I recommend Chris's Dynamic Compressor. The exact settings for your audio will vary, but I've found that these settings work quite well on most recordings.

Compression ratio: 0.8

Compression hardness: around 0.8

Floor: -18.0 to -32.0

Noise gate falloff: 4.0

Maximum amplitude: 0.99 (default)

Normalization

Normalization's most popular use is to increase or decrease your audio so that the loudest point is at a certain level. I recommend -1dB.

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